One year ago, the first bird flu infection in a human in the United States was reported in a Texas dairy worker. There have ...

When a disease-causing pathogen such as a flu virus is already adapted to infect a particular animal species, it may ...

Bird flu cases are rising rapidly in the U.S. and around the world. A new study traces how the disease spread over the last ...

The UK’s Chief Veterinary Officer has confirmed a case of influenza of avian origin (H5N1) in a single sheep in Yorkshire ...

The infection was detected in a single sheep in Yorkshire on Monday and, while bird flu does not spread easily to people, the ...

In Albert Camus’ novel, The Plague, set in the French Algerian town of Oran, rats one day begin showing up dead on residents’ ...

In recent news appearances, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has suggested allowing ...

Since 1959 the avian flu virus H5N1 has been popping up around the globe. Now scientists believe it could spark the next ...